China is now the second largest contributor to the UN, after America
veto-wielding power in the United Nations, China has long been reluctant to stick its neck out. It has been 20 years since it last stood alone in exercising that right. But in the’s backrooms, the country’s diplomats are showing greater willingness to flex muscle, and their Western counterparts to fight back. Not since the cold war has the organisation become such a battleground for competing visions of the international order.
A struggle in October over China’s mass internment of Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority, suggests how intense the fight has become. It involved Britain taking an unusual leading role in condemning China’s human-rights record. The British representative at the, Karen Pierce, issued a statement, signed by 22 other countries including America, calling for unfetteredaccess to the prison camps in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang. A diplomatic brawl ensued.
More than merely language is involved. In 2017 China sought successfully to cut funding for a job intended to ensure that all of theagencies and programmes promote human rights. That same year Wu Hongbo, a Chinese diplomat who was then in charge of theforum to which Mr Isa was an invited delegate, representing a German. Mr Wu, whose post required him to be non-partisan, later boasted about his actions on Chinese state television. “We have to strongly defend the motherland’s interests,” he said.
Opposition to China’s more assertive approach may grow. “I think they are overdoing it and I think at some stage people will start to resist,” says the Security Council diplomat. But some others at thedo not share that view. Smaller states in Africa and the Middle East, many of them dictatorships, resent America’s post-cold-war dominance of the. Why should China not push back, asks a diplomat from one country in that part of the world.
“There’s a degree of hypocrisy about it,” says Richard Gowan of the International Crisis Group, a conflict-prevention. “It would be weird to imagine that China as a rising power wouldn’t want a bigger stake in the multilateral system.” Few would imagine that now."A new battleground"
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